IOWASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 13, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

92,795

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa →3 incidents on file

Mercy Iowa City (IA) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-11-13 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 92,795 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI stored in email, including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, offered credit monitoring, implemented additional technical safeguards, and retrained staff on phishing awareness. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 13, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_2a28526c953d48e12020-11-13Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_35d6f4ce995941d62020-11-13Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_312e904dda8c788e2020-12-01 · +18dVerified
Montana State AGbd_f30be3fe378b92d82020-10-03 · +41dCandidate

Name: Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
norm: mercy hospital iowa city iowa
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
norm: mercy hospital iowa city iowa
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 92,795nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR notifiedOCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Offered complimentary credit monitoring services to all affected individuals
Implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect ePHI
Retrained staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional technical safeguards implemented
Staff phishing-awareness retraining conducted
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Montana State AGOct 3 · first

Maine State AG+41d

Massachusetts State AG+41d

HHS OCR+41d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+59d

Pattern: first filing Oct 3 (MT), last Dec 1 (NH) — a 59-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Nov 13, 2020
Raw hash: 9b125d650d1e1099d226cf33d5c1b5715db6cc4ebf311db2168baf8915c1e060

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa

Victim entityMercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing